76R11566 DRH-D                           
         By Alexander                                          H.B. No. 2462
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2462:
         By Siebert                                        C.S.H.B. No. 2462
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the operation of certain farm vehicles and trailers.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 502.276(c), Transportation Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  A vehicle that has [An owner who obtains] a
 1-7     distinguishing license plate issued under Subsection (b) may be
 1-8     operated [operate] temporarily on the highways if the vehicle is:
 1-9                 (1)  a farm trailer or farm semitrailer with a gross
1-10     weight of more than 4,000 pounds but not more than 34,000 pounds
1-11     that is used exclusively to transport:
1-12                       (A)  [the owner's] seasonally harvested
1-13     agricultural products or [and] livestock from the place of
1-14     production to the place of processing, market, or storage; or
1-15                       (B)  farm supplies from the place of loading to
1-16     the farm;
1-17                 (2)  machinery used exclusively for the purpose of
1-18     drilling water wells; or
1-19                 (3)  construction machinery that is not designed to
1-20     transport persons or property on a public highway.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.